Statutes of the State of Nevada Passed at the ... Session of the Legislature

Ratifying

woman

suffrage

JOINT RESOLUTION

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (twothirds of each house concurring therein), That the following amendment article is proposed as an amendment to the constitution, constitution which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states:

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ARTICLE

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of Nevada, the Senate concurring, That said proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States of America be, and the same hereby is ratified by the legislature of the State of Nevada; that certified copies of this preamble and joint and concurrent resolution be forwarded by the governor of this state to the president of the United States, to the secretary of state of the United States, to the presiding officer of the United States senate, and to the speaker of the house of representatives of the United States.

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

I, George Brodigan, Secretary of State of the State of Nevada, do hereby certify that the foregoing printed law and resolution are full, true and correct copies of the enrolled law and resolution which were passed at the Extraordinary Session of the Twenty-ninth Nevada State Legislature (1920), as the same appear on file and of record in this office.

In WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Great Seal of State, at my office in Carson
City, Nevada, this 29th day of April, A. D. 1921.

GeorgerBrodigan

Secretary of State.